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Thanks a million for posting these great pictures. An excellent sample of Stanton at his best, i.e. classic, elegant Stanton art. I have long been looking for them as I had only two pics of this story. Do you have the text ?

Richard,I might be wrong but it seems to me that Stanton recycled a few of these pics to illustrate other stories. I had another story which included at leat two of these great pics. If you are interested I can send them to you. I sanned them but I discarded the mag with the story long ago.

@ Bibliophile When I bought the “Hampered Hercules” booklet, years ago, it included an ad for “How to tame a roommate”, a Stanton booklet which looked very promising. I have never been able to lay my hands on it. Do you know it ?

Sadly not. It certainly existed as it was cited alongside many other titles in this 1963 obscenity adjudication: http://www.leagle.com/decision?q=196398437Misc2d947_1685.xml/STENGEL%20v.%20SMITH

Perhaps one day someone who owns a copy will kindly scan the pages and post them on the Web. The last time I expressed such a hope, over Don’s Degradation, it came true within five months. Fingers crossed!

@ Bibliophile Thanks for the document. They cut the work for us ! This judgment was a late remnant of the blue-nosed Fifties, when we consider what happened later on in the Sixties, e.g. publication of SCREW Magazine or LA PLUME… Fortunately Eric Stanton did not throw the towel. I was one of his private customers.

I have taken and wasted the time to read this obcenity adjudication. Its legal jargon is absolutely unbearable. Perhaps a record in the field of gobbledegook ! Why write simply when it’s easier to write it in a complicated way ?

It wasn’t necessarily Stanton who re-used his old drawings. You may find this hard to believe, but some publishers were unscrupulous enough to take Stanton drawings from old books and put them in new ones.

You are absolutely right. I bought a bad quality booklet which contained a few Stanton pics to illustrate another story, and the bad quality led me to believe that this unscrupulous Publisher had just Xeroxed (that’s what they would do in those days) Stanton’s art. The bad quality of the reproduction was suspect.

There are only a few of Stanton’s stories that I enjoy. “A Woman Scorned> is my favorite. Straightforward, not cluttered with things like feminization, being a bad man, or marriage,none of which I can relate to.

Ultimately, what turns us on turns us on because it turns us on. I can’t relate to selfish arrogant males or penniless losers, but I have seen art and stories with some of these elements that seemed intensely erotic.

Interesting dialogue between Stanton diehard fans ! I concur that most of the time, the texts are not up to the level of Stanton’s art. Anyway these pics are a lot more exciting than those ever so boring Princks drawings-